Floor Tiles as Substrate

[Horde]

I had my vet recommend using floor tiles as substrate with the rough edge (bottom of the tile) sticking up! I have a UTH....has anyone tried this?

[Elise.m]

I would imagine that would scratch the snakes belly... I don't think that'd be such a good idea, for many reasons.

[MsPrada]

Was it a vet with any specialty in reptiles or any training? A lot of vets from where I used to live didnt know anything about anything but dogs and cats and still tried to say "such and such is bad, such and such is a good, your bp needs a uv light" and what not.

[Horde]

The vet I went to does specialize in reptiles and other exotic pets. I can't say I liked them, because I thought a lot of their ideas were kind of weird.

[MsPrada]

Would the UTH even heat the tiles? Bps burrow, they couldnt burrow in tile...

[Freakie_frog]

I wouldn't do that.. for a number of reasons

1: the amount of heat the UTH would have to put out to heat a ceramic tile would be crazy.

2. half the job of substrate is to absorb some of the waste. Tile doens't even come close..

Use paper towels or Newpaper..